Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

10.

Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

11.

A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

12.

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

20.

We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

32.

Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.